The term culture comes from the Latin "cultura" meaning "processing, care, agriculture" and, in the broadest sense, describes everything that humans create themselves, in contrast to nature that they have not created or changed. Cultural achievements are all formative transformations of a given material, as in technology or the fine arts, but also intellectual structures such as languages, morals, religion, law, economics and science.
I discovered the Datca Peninsula, in the southwestern corner of Turkey, purely by accident. This was in 2005. I’d never been to Turkey and was trying to find a rental house somewhere — anywhere on any coast of the country — where my husband and I could spend the month of June.
“I'm Yunus, mystic of sorrow/Suffering wounds from top to toe/In the Friend's hands I writhe in woe/ Come see what love has done to me.”
- Yunus Emre
Yaşar Kemal (born Kemal Sadık Gökçeli 1923) is one of Turkey's leading writers. He has long been a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, on the strength of Memed, My Hawk.
The Yollarda project has invited 48 European authors to Turkey – and among them was the young Berlin author Björn Kern. He offers us his views on why Turks have such a negative view of Germans and what could be undertaken to turn things around.
As part of the series of events “50 years of the recruitment agreement between Turkey and Germany”, the theater group Tiyatro Tempo from Ankara will perform the play “Waiting for life to begin…” in Antalya.
- Traditional drama (Light comedy)
Our shadow play KARAGÖZ HACIVAT, being a cornerstone of our traditional culture’s galanty show and fairytale teller and mimic, were created centuries ago.
In 2006, the theatre group "Die Sultaninen" was founded in Berlin, made up of actors of different nationalities and all over 60 years of age, who were able to stage and perform their first play "The Turkish Wedding" with great success.
They have been a fixture in Neukölln for years and this is exactly where they fit in: Die Sultaninen, the theater group around Hülya Karci. They have their roots in Germany, Turkey, Iran, Poland and Lithuania.
Some Germans tend to have strange habits, says comedian Serhat Dogan: They arrange their furniture according to energy flows, listen to music with strange lyrics and explain the general traffic regulations to their dogs.
A few days after the Fazil Say "Gezi-Concert" at the Volkstheater in Vienna, we arrived at the Grenzenlos Festival in Augsburg, where a message from Ms. Susanne Baertele from the Volkstheater awaited us.
If someone is standing around somewhere in a large square, alone, silent, hands in trouser pockets, it's not necessarily obvious.
We took the tram from our accommodation to Anger, the central square in the Thuringian capital of Erfurt, and then walked across the elongated square towards the Krämerbrücke.
The Franconian small town of Giebelstadt is probably named after the Alemannian nobility of the Gibule and was mentioned in the year 820 for the first time.
The Marionette Theatre, which is known as Korcak, Kudurcuk, Kaburcuk and Lubet in Anatolia, is the oldest form of theatre in the world. Some other expressions like Korkolcak and Cadirhayal (time for fantasy) describe better exactly what it means.
“Pink Floyd Ballet”, the show by Italian Teatro alla Scala Ballet Company, which had its world premiere in 1972 with magnificent live performances by Pink Floyd – the legendary rock band- will be on stage with it’s last and longer version at the Istanbul Congress Center between November 25th and 28th, courtesy of “Show How” organization.
Who is not familiar with the historical film "Gladiator" in which Russel Crowe played the leading role. About 10 years ago, the Australian actor stayed in Turkey for several weeks of shooting of his new film "The Water Diviner".
Her record is 22.4 meters, which she set in 2020 off the coast of Nazaré, Portugal. This is where the path that had been the goal since 2013 "ended".
In our article "Deep encounter in Alexandroupolis" we had already reported in detail about the meeting with the Swiss filmmakers Philip Spaar and Fabian Senn as well as the cameraman Stefan Schöbi as part of their film project "Road to Cinema Jenin".
On our way to the Balkans, we arrived again at the campsite in Alexandroupolis as part of our project tour. The event we were about to encounter here was almost 10 years ago, but its explosiveness is more relevant than ever. It shows once again the horror of terror, violence, war and the consequences of flight and migration.
Since the police operations against the so-called Gezi protests in 2013, art from and in Turkey has had a real problem. Everyone now expects art to at least partially address political issues.